Bay-Friendly Gardening Guide - Chapter 2

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This chapter covers how to plan a garden and provides a visual example of all … Bay-Friendly garden might contain. For help with assessing your site and …

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How to Plan a Garden
The following is a general overview of the
factors to consider when you want to renovate
all or some part of your garden. The
best approach is to think first about form
and function - what the conditions of
your site are and how you use the garden
- then consider details such as plant
choice.
1. Get to know what you have. Spend
some time puttering. Knock around out
there. Prune a few things, pull weeds, put a
few plants in the ground. The point is to
get to know the place, to build first-hand
experience of your little piece of the earth.
2. Consider the structure of the place.
This means the hard features - driveway,
buildings, fences, paved paths. It also
means plant materials - what’s already
growing in the yard and what shape does it
give your garden? For help inventorying
your site, see the Garden Design Survey at
the back of the book.
3. Make a simple plan of the property.
A property survey was completed for your
home at the time it was built, and if you
obtain a copy (available in the county
assessor’s office), it…